Witt

Rübezahl

Joachim Witt is a legendary fixture in German music history, having
played a decisive role in the creation and development of modern German
music. After starting his career as the guitarist/singer in the 1970s
Krautrock band Duesenberg. Witt embarked on a long and celebrated solo
career as a singer and actor. He was one of the biggest names of the
"Neue Deutsche Welle" (New German Wave) movements in the 80's, as well
as one of the originators of Neue Deutsche Harrte (German for "New
German Hardness) a crossover of metal, industrial, electronics, and
techno elements that developed in Germany during the mid-1990s. Witt has
been noted as an influence on bands such as Rammstein, Eisbrecher,
Oomph!, Unheilig, and many more.Over his prolific career, Witt has
released 16 albums. Starting with his breakthrough 1980 album
Silberblick, containing the single Der Goldene Reiter, he continues to
create through such highlights as his 1998 smash Bayreuth I and the
platinum DOM in 2012. Witt built a particularly close connection
with his fans on his last albums ICH and THRON, through a crowdfunding
campaign to work independently on his distinct musical vision. This is
how the latest work of the exceptional artist was created:RUBEZAHL -
melancholic, magical and dark. In collaboration with Lord Of The Lost
mastermind Chris Harms as producer, RUBEZAHL is at once the gloomiest
and most resplendent album in Witt's entire discography. The album is
darkly romantic, moody, spirited, rigorous, proud, and powerful, moving
like a musical storm across legendary mountains. Witt's distinct voice
and grandiose lyrics hold court throughout, be it over menacing
synthesizer sounds and brute guitars, or a delicate romantic ballad such
as Mein Diamant or through a wall of sound and textures on Ich Will
Leben and the grand-scale production of Quo Vadis.

With themes
of legend, songs of demons, giants, mountain spirits, and romantic
naturalism, RUBEZAHL proves a work of art as distinguished as its
creator, the venerable Joachim Witt.